Many of Glenn Gordon Caron’s old ways of talking to his friend Bruce Willis are no longer available. However, he knows that Willis is glad that his show “Moonlighting” is now available to watch.
Caron told the New York Post about his friend, whom he said he tries to see about once a month. Caron helped create the show that Willis appeared in in the 1980s.
“I know he’s really happy that the show is going to be available for people,” Caron stated.
“Moonlighting,” a popular romantic comedy show with Willis and Cybil Shepherd as private detectives, can now be watched online on Hulu.
“The process (to get ‘Moonlighting’ onto Hulu) has taken quite a while and Bruce’s disease is a progressive disease, so I was able to communicate with him, before the disease rendered him as incommunicative as he is now, about hoping to get the show back in front of people,” Caron stated. “I know it means a lot to him.”
Last year, it was reported that Willis would be leaving his job because of brain problems. Since then, doctors have told him he has frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a brain disease that gets worse over time.
That there was “no one who had any more joie de vivre than” Willis was part of the tragedy of his illness, his friend said.
“He’s not completely verbal. He used to read a lot, but he didn’t want anyone to know that, and he doesn’t read now.” “He could no longer use all of those language skills, but he’s still Bruce,” Caron said. “When you’re with him you know that he’s Bruce and you’re grateful that he’s there, but the joie de vivre is gone.”
